Manufacturing procedures after door mishap on board an american Alaskan Airlines flight. Temporally grounded over one or 50 planes and ordered inspections by the house transportation subcommittee hearing is about three hours. [background noises] is mick. [background noises] a subcommittee on a visual consort is unescos at the chairman authorized to declare recess without objections ordered also ask you nose consent subcommittee and ask questions that objection prints ordered. I was reminded members wishing to insert documents in the record please also email the documents i dont recognize myself for the purpose of an Opening Statement for five minutes. Thank you for being here administrator whitaker. I want to first off congratulate you for your unanimous confirmation vote. As you know achieving Something Like that in todays times is quite remarkable. Really appreciate your expertise head look forward to working with you. I hope you understand the strong support from congress but also e
Inspections by the house transportation subcommittee hearing is about three hours. [background noises] is mick. [background noises] a subcommittee on a visual consort is unescos at the chairman authorized to declare recess without objections ordered also ask you nose consent subcommittee and ask questions that objection prints ordered. I was reminded members wishing to insert documents in the record please also email the documents i dont recognize myself for the purpose of an Opening Statement for five minutes. Thank you for being here administrator whitaker. I want to first off congratulate you for your unanimous confirmation vote. As you know achieving Something Like that in todays times is quite remarkable. Really appreciate your expertise head look forward to working with you. I hope you understand the strong support from congress but also enormous recognition of the responsibility of the job youve now taken on. We have heard a lot of descriptions about americas Aviation Industry.
Channel one, the premiere of a documentary film jump from space. On november 1, 1962, a closed military Training Ground near volsk, saratov region, three oclock in the morning local time, but as bright as day , final preparations are underway for a topsecret experiment codenamed star. The names of the paratroopers, colonel pyotr dolgov and major Evgeny Andreev , the first in the world to jump from the stratosphere , will be classified, for a long 40 years, while everything passes, nothing portends. Troubles at dawn begin to consider a hundredmeter balloon from a wolf, consisting of a shell with a volume of more than 72,000 cubic meters. This is approximately the size of a twoaccess fivestory building, a suspension is attached to it. Everything together weighs almost that when the wolf reaches a height of 30 km, 36yearold colonel Evgeny Andreev will be the first to eject . Falling from speed of 900 km h, it will be in free fall for 4 minutes 30 seconds after flying more than 20 km. Only
Hearing lasts an hour and 45 minutes. Were a couple minutes but will get started. The subcommittee on safety aviation will come to order. I want to welcome everyone to our hearing today addressing close calls to improve aviation safety. This may be the most important hearing we have all year and i want to thank chair cat well, Ranking Member cruz and moran in their help to making this hearing happen. The near misses weve been seeing recently are not normal and are a warning our Aviation System is under stress. And today we will have an opportunity to hear from several Key Stakeholders about why were experiencing so many near misses and what we need to do to increase our safety margins. Well hear from National Transportation safety chairwoman jennifer hamady, chief operational officer tim worrell and rich santa, Airline Pilots association, captain jason ambrossy and former administrator randy back out. While disagreements tend to garner more coverage than compromise, its worth noting i
Were killed during the hamas terror attack on israel. Another terror attack on israel. Another five remain missing. And it five remain missing. And it comes after 85 year old israeli hostages released by hamas last night described the hell of being taken into a spider web of tunnels underneath gaza. Yakov tunnels underneath gaza. Yakov also said she was treated well and was seen by a doctor during her ordeal. Hamas says she was returned along with another israeli woman, nurit cooper on humanity. Darian grounds their humanity. Darian grounds their husbands , though, are still husbands, though, are still being held as hostages. Yakovs being held as hostages. Yakovs daughter, sharon , whos a daughter, sharon, whos a british citizen, tried slated her mothers description of how the abduction happened. The abduction happened. A swarm of people came through the fence. Through the fence. The defence costs 2. 5 billion shekels and it didnt help even a little bit. My shekels and it didnt help ev